Scandals and Technology Extension

This is my extension work for term 3. We were learning about the Olympics and we were given a choice to pick two subject that relate to the Olympics. I chose Scandals and technology.

The 100m mens sprint London Olympics

The atmosphere was filled with excitement from thousands of thrilled people sitting in the Olympic stadium in London 2012. Everyone was watching with anticipation as the nine competitors were preparing themselves to run. It was the finals for the 100m men's sprint. All the competitors had been training themselves for this very day, and now it was time for them to give it their all.  As the nine runners got ready to run everything went dead silent. Suddenly a voice called out “On your mark... set...”.

BANG! The runners ran as fast as their legs could take them.The crowd went wild, cheering on the runners! You could see on the sprinters faces that all of them were trying to push themselves.The race was only 10 seconds long and in that 10 seconds, the famous Usain Bolt took the lead. In the crowd people were holding up all sorts of flags to show there support to the runners. One of the runners fell behind the rest but the rest carried on strong to the end!

Out came Usain Bolt coming first. He was filled with so much pride and happiness he continued to run around the stadium. Then the media crew arrived, taking photos and filming Usain Bolt. He carried on running around the stadium non stop, The rest of the runners were no where to be seen as the camera’s were mostly focusing on the winners of the race. In third place was Justin Gatlin from USA, in second place was Yohan Blake from Jamaica and lastly in first place Usain Bolt from Jamaica! It was a very short but very exciting!

Tamaki college Experience day Recount

It was a cloudy day as the year eights of Point England school lined up ready to go to Tamaki college. We were going there to see what college was like by going into college classes. This is also to prepare as for next year when we turn into year nines. I was excited and nervous at the same time, because I always thought that college was going to be hard and going to Tamaki might prove my theory. As we were walking to Tamaki I was happily chatting with my Friend Brooklyn who was my walking partner, we both laughed and had fun walking but the real fun began when we entered the Tamaki Auditorium.

The Auditorium was filled with the sound of foot steps as we all took our seats at the end of the Auditorium, at the other end was a small stage. We were welcomed by Mrs Moore the deputy principal, who gave a small speech about Tamaki and what they expect from us. We were all split into 3 large groups named A, B and C, I was put in group C. Each group were given guides who were Tamaki students, I knew that all of them used to come to Point England. In my group our guides were year eights last year! It was great to see them when we were dismissed by the Mrs Moore our guides took us to social studies.

We traveled for about 2 minutes until we came across a classroom with two teachers inside. In social studies we learnt about a pepeha which is like a speech about where we come from. Then we were given a task where we had to get into a group of 7 and pick a leader of our group. I got into a group of girls and we chose Losekoula as our leader. We also had to chose a speaker to say the pepeha and Mele stood up to say it and I thought she did really well! Our next class was maths! I really like maths so I was excited to go. When we entered the maths class, we sat down and the maths teacher introduced herself to the class. She started to tell us how she actually teaches business but was given the job to teach us some maths. So she began teaches us some algebra which was cool. Maths went by fast and soon after we left to go back to the auditorium for interval.

So far I had a pretty good start. When we were all settled in our seats Mrs Moore was back and told us that former Point Englanders were going to talk to us about Tamaki and give some advice for the kids going there. They gave us some cool advice like when we go to college just be yourself cause thats the best you can be, try your best in school and listen to what the teacher is saying. It was really cool to hear from them and that they made me feel more comfortable for next year. Next was interval! Where me and some of my friends decided to explore Tamaki. It’s small and I found it easy to find my way around the school. It felt a bit weird to be surrounded by college kids, but the feeling soon disappeared when we got to go to our normal technology classes. In our technology classes we go to different classes like Food tech, Graphics, Hard materials and Music. We change classes each school term and this term I was in food tech, and we got to make burgers! My friend Brooklyn and I paired up and we cooked together. It was lots of fun and I loved putting the burgers together. Lunch was after that and it was the perfect time to eat my burger. All the year eights ate outside the auditorium. For lunch everyone was given a Subway sandwich which made everyone full and happy.

Our last class was English and we had to find our classes by ourselves! We were in our three groups and were given instructions to go to the class we were told. My class was called B2 and I was happy that I was one of the first people to get there. When our teacher came she let us in with a smile and we rushed in to the class. Our teachers name is Ms George and she is a really fun teacher. We got to play Kahoot where we had to answer questions about Literacy terms like metaphors and similes. I was really excited doing the quiz because I had learnt about these things this year and do you know what happend… I came first! I was sooo happy and Ms George wrote my name on the board and said she was going to give me a prize next term! After Kahoot we were given the task to create out own timeline which means we had to write down all the major events in our lives. We had to write ten of them and Juliet and I were the first ones to finish!

I had a great time in English but now it was time to move on to P.E. All the three groups met in the basketball court and we met two of the P.E teachers. We were given to options we could either stay inside and play some activities or go outside and do some rugby drills. Since I’m not a rugby player I stayed inside where we played a game where it was like dodge ball but you couldn’t run with the ball, so you had to pass to your team so you could get someone out. It was soo much fun and I got out a few times but thats okay. It was really hard to try and get the ball from the other team without getting tagged. After a couple of rounds we had to go back to the auditorium.

It was a really fun day but it came to an end as we got one final talk from the second deputy principle who told us that college isn’t hard even though it seems to be. Two of our school prefects stood up to thank the deputy principle for the opportunity to come to Tamaki. Then it was time to say goodbye and go home. I had lots of fun at Tamaki and I have now learnt that college is going to be fine next year if I just work hard and try my best! Now I can’t wait for college!!

Olympic Maths

Here is my maths work. We have been working on Mean,Median and mode.

Add/Sub Yr 8 - 2

Here is my maths work for this week. Where we are learning to solve subtraction problems with hundredths by changing the second number into a whole number.

Add/Sub Yr 8 - 1

Here is my Maths work for this week. We are learning how to solve addition problems by changing a number into a whole number.

Thinkboard W9 T3

This is my thinkboard for this week. We are doing addition and subtraction.

Lance Armstrong confessed of doping!

This week we had to create an article about someone doping. I chose Lance Armstrong, I hope you have learned something from this!

Thinkboard T3 W8

Here is my thinkboard for this week. 

Mult/Div Yr 8-2 T3 Wk 8

This is my maths work for this week. We are doing division and how to turn remainders into decimals.

Reading with Ariana & Lucy

Here is my reading for this week where we were given the task to find an article and create a presentation about and I created this presentation with my friend Ariana.

Mult/Div Yr 8 -1 Term 3 Wk 8

Here is my maths work for this week. I found this easy and we are learning about division.

Thinkboard T3 W7

This is my thinkboard for this week. I learnt lots of things from this I can just imagine all the pastabilities of me using this in real life! (Spaghetti and Pasta! Haha bah dum tss)

German twins Olympics

This week for reading I was given the task to create a five slide presentation about an article and answer the following questions.

Add/ Sub Stage 7/8 Intro

This is my maths work from week 4. Its about adding and subtracting.

Ratio and Proportions - Oct/ Hex W6 T3

This is my maths work for this week and we are learning Ratios and proportions.

Thinkboard W6 T3

Here is my thinkboard for this week. 

Thinkboard W5 T3

Here is my Thinkboard for this week. This is about decimals.

Valerie Adam Olympics 2016

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This presentation is about Valerie Adams. I have learnt some interesting things about her like she has 17 siblings in her family.

Rio Olympics Narrative

The crowd was waiting with anticipation as the famous Valerie Adams prepared herself to throw the shot. She slowly extended her arm to aim where she was going to throw it. The air was still and Valerie knew it was time to throw the show! She threw the shot with everything she had. The crowd was now silent waiting to see the results when suddenly a Pigeon flew quickly into the arena.

WHACK! The shot flew right into the Pigeon and the two figures came crashing down to the ground. The entire arena sat in shock as they saw the poor bird fall to his doom, someone even screamed in terror. Valerie Adams face went pale, thinking that she was a terrible bird killer! The green grass was now red.

Everyone was still shocked from the events that just occurred. No one knew how to react to this event but the next thing that happen filled them all with relief. Valerie ran to the Pigeon to see that the bird was still alive and breathing. She slowly took the shot of the birds wing to find that the poor bird had only squashed a strawberry and was now covered in strawberry juice. Valerie was so kind that she cleaned the bird using the water from her water bottle and took it to the vet leaving the Olympics for the poor bird. Weeks later the bird was healthy and ready to go back into the world, Thanks to help of Valerie Adams.

This story was made up none of this is true!